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Distributed Across the Field: performing "social space"

Distributed Across the Field shows a video of grass blowing in the wind and endlessly looping in an exhaustive cycle of repetition. Using grass as a symbol of class, public and private spaces, ownership and a marketplace, the flattening of these green fields calls into question what is considered place and space in the 21st century. Placed on a gray backdrop and viewed from behind a computer screen, these encapsulated fields of green exist whiten a literal gray zone of the actual and the imaged and seek to disrupt the perception of what grass is. Responding to Lieven de Cauter’s notion of a post-urban sprawl comprised of fibre-optic cables and civilization comprised of capsular shaped prisons, I see the desktop as a site-specific location to talk about the results of capitalism, and the effect that technology advancements have on creating a new-nomadic existence; nomadic in the sense that motion and movement now exists in large part across the networked system of the internet and digital spaces. De Cauter states, “the micro-electronic age will complete the suburbanization and de-urbanizatino that started in the previous era. One can live anywhere, as long as one is connected to the networks; a concept that gives birth to the a-geographical city” (de Cauter 43). As cables continue to construct our connections, one’s presence online and on-screen increasingly becomes part of an everyday route of one’s bodily trajectory and paradoxically, thus simultaneously raises questions about where and what are we rooted in if not dirt, grass, rocks and…wiring?

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